November 4, 2009

Just Can't Take Our Eyes Off Pedro

Steve Buckley, Boston Herald

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You never know when Pedro Martinez is going to pitch a game that we’ll talk about forever. So we always watch.

And you never know when the Dominican Dandy is going to say something that we’ll talk about forever. So we always listen.

Put the two together - the superb, otherworldly pitching skills, coupled with a talent for showmanship that so many professional athletes wish they had, but don’t - and what we have is a baseball player who, we can now comfortably say, is going to stand the test of time.

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